A $33 million infrastructure project in Boiceville that began in 2021 and includes road, bridge, and trailhead upgrades near the Ashokan Reservoir may not be completed until this fall, about a year after New York City officials first estimated, a local official said.The revised timeline came from New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection, which is paying for the project, according to Olive Town Supervisor Jim Sofranko. The city is upgrading its Ashokan Reservoir watershed, which provides about 1 billion gallons of drinking water each day to 8.5 million residents of its five boroughs.
The project involves New York City, Ulster County, and the Town of Olive, which includes the hamlet of Boiceville, making delays difficult to avoid, Sofranko said. He didn’t know whether the delay had affected its overall cost.
“When you have a project of that kind of scope, where there are so many hands in it, any little thing can happen and it sets it back,” he said…